This is a student kit. Buy the exclusive Sunflower Cottage Pillow Student Kit from us to stitch this sweet little sampler with Sunflowers! Bright yellows and golds, surrounding the heart of the sunflower where the delicious seeds grow, they are some of our favorite flowers in a summer garden. Stitched with luscious over-dyed silks, ribbons, silk flosses, metallic, and sparkling beads, you will be Cross Stitching the top and bottom areas first.. and then move on to the more challenging stitches as your skills improve!
This is the fourth of a collection of lovely little samplers focused on cottages and garden flowers. Stitched with luscious over-dyed silks, silk flosses, Metallic Braid, baby blue and a gold Perle Cottons, and sparkling beads on sky blue linen, it is perfectly designed for learning! It is not too big, so you can more effectively master how to stitch the few lovely specialty stitches like Whipped Back Stitch, Japanese Ribbon Stitch, French Knots, Smyrna Crosses, Herringbone Stitches, Honeycomb Hemstitch, Buillion Knots, Four Sided Stitches, Satin Stitches, Eyelets, Algerian Eyelets, Triple Crosses, Kloster Blocks, Blanket Stitches, and Blanket Stitch Flower Filling Stitch!
Follow our clear and simple diagrams included in this leaflet and enjoy the journey to your Sunflower Cottage. To finish, instructions to create a pillow are at the back of this leaflet. You can finish stitching this little sampler in less than a week, although you may want to take a lot more time to fully enjoy the step-by-step journey to “Sunflower Cottage”! -Thea
Your Student kit includes:
Leaflet - "Sunflower Cottage" Sampler Chart with complete instructions, diagrams and full colour finishing photos.
Accessory Pack with 4 beautiful Overdyed Silk Flosses, 13 luscious silk Flosses, Silk Ribbon and 3 kinds of sparkling Beads
Linen Pack - 11" x 13" Ice Blue 28ct Cashel Linen,
Additional Materials - Blue and Gold Perle Cottons, Tapestry Needle, Beading Needle and Straw Needle for making Buillion Knots.
Finishing Pack - Black Cotton Fabric, Blue Gold floral Cotton Fabric, Beige Inner Pillow fabric and Sunflower buttons
Sorting The Threads in your Accessory Pack:
Remember to sort in daylight near a window, not under artificial light indoors, as the colours change with the colour of the lightbulbs we use. Each floss has a different number of strands in each thread length. This helps you differentiate the different colours in your pack. Needlepoint Inc. silk floss has 8 strands per length The Kreinik Mori has 6 strands per length The Gloriana Overdyed Silk has 12 thin strands per length.
FYI: some colours could have been divided into two lengths. This can happen if a colour requires partial yardage. ie. Our kitmaker might include one 1 yard length and one 0.5 yard length, so don't be surprised if one colour has more than one length of thread. We hope this extra information will help you sort your threads more easily!